Word: shakerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprised to discover that the movie people generally lived, not on palatial estates, but in tidy suburbs resembling Baltimore's Roland Park and Cleveland's Shaker Heights. They proved excellent interviewees because "the level of frustration was high, and frustrated people love to talk." The anonymous case histories indicate that Hollywoodians are frustrated because 1) they make more money than other people in the U.S., and 2) are constantly worried about being fired...
...shuffle of the New Deal, Writer Malcolm Ross was one of the bright young Ivy Leaguers who went to Washington to take a hand. Yaleman Ross sat to the left of the dealer and played his cards ably. Soon he was publicity chief of the NLRB and a mover & shaker in U.S. labor policy. After a rough ride as chairman of the controversial FEPC, "Mike" Ross quit government in 1946, moved to Florida and went back to writing books...
...Mahogany Shaker. They spun old-fashioned spinning wheels, fondled tomahawks and dueling pistols, peered through a telescope (see cut) carried by Lewis & Clark on the exploration up the Missouri and Columbia Rivers. They even shook dice in a gleaming mahogany shaker from a palatial riverboat of the 1880s, the Grand Republic. As the children examined the trophies, two of Van Ravenswaay's museum staffers gave them a running account of the frontier history the objects represented...
Jean McCollum '52 of Henry House and Shaker Heights, Ohio; house president; chairman, student employment committee; secretary, freshman class...
Also David Irish Coombs '50 of Louisiana, Missouri and Dunster House, Daniel A. Cronin, Jr. '50 of Lexington, Raphael David Silver '50 of Shaker Heights, Ohio and Lowell House, Thomas Cunningham Simons '50 of Oakland, California and Eliot House, and Robert Livingston Matters of New York City and Lowell House...